Recent viewings

[Ash]

Dead Birds (2004) - Back in the Civil War era, a group of outlaws robs a bank, then hides out at an abandoned plantation house.  Unfortunately the house is haunted. 

I'm pretty sure I have this on my Netflix queue.
I'll have to double check and watch it if it's on there.

[lester1/2jr]

grinhouse presents planet terror - I had no intention of ever seeing this but happen to catch it on Encore Mystery.  It was a good zombie horror movie with 90's type wise ass humor and underground film festival type "outragous" gross outs.  It was a hell of a lot better than star Rose McGowans show "Charmed"!  but not as scintillating as her teacher stalker one.  Like all tarantino and surrounding directors movies, it has no real underlying theme,  it's all just what's on screen moment to moment.

MST3K Teenagers from Outerspace-  the jokes aren't among the crews bests and the skits are a little disjointed, one alludes to events in the movie that the audience hasn't even seen yet!, but I love this movie itself about a gay ish alien and his huge lobsters.  the sort of moll / emo love interest is cute too.

[Psycho Circus]

I can honestly say that I'd never ever seen this film before. I thought that it was good, some decent action and some funny lines, (with Gibbo's Aussie accent all over the place) but it was all few and far between. I've often seen this listed on "all-time" action movies lists just behind Die Hard, but it pales in comparison to the latter. From what I've heard and read, this is really overrated for me, plus the ending is really stupid. Still, better than anything currently in my local DVD store... 3/5

[Doggett]

Aussie mockumantary about a toilet cleaner and his day to day life.
It's not as wacky as those Christopher Guest films (which helps)  but there's s certain naive charm about the guy. He's kinda bottom of the pile and knows it, but he doesn't let that get him down. This film also has a wonderful romance element that isn't as forced or as fake as you see in other films (I'm looking at you Spider-Man).

4/5

Definitely not an in-your-face comedy but a wonderfully subtle one. Which there isn't enough of.

[3mnkids]

Across the hall~ a husband suspects his wife is cheating when he follows her to a motel. He calls his best friend to help him sort it all out... wow, this was stupid. The acting was alright but it was very slow and predicable. 

No night is too long~ Lee Williams plays a young guy who loves the chase but once he gets what he wants he losses interest. This causes a few problems for him. Apparently he is incapable of love and the movie tries to make you feel sorry for him. I didn't. I thought his character was selfish, arrogant, and vicious.

I did enjoy the movie though. The acting was good, the plot was interesting and it had a few twist that surprised me. That rarely happens. 

[Rev. Powell]

DRACULA (1992): Vlad Dracula, a defender of Christendom against invading Muslims, curses God and becomes undead when his beloved bride throws herself from the castle walls due to false reports of his death sent by Turkish spies; centuries later, he plots to seduce his love?s reincarnation in Victorian London. Visually astonishing film from Franics Ford Coppola contains some of the best performances you'll ever see (Oldman as Dracula) alongside some of the very worst (Keanu Reeves' lengendarily embarrassing Jonathan Harker).  4/5.

DELICATESSEN (1991): A butcher runs a boarding house filled with bizarre residents in a near future plagued by shortages, but always seems to have enough meat to barter... Offbeat and often fascinating futuristic black comedy, built around some amazing set pieces (a rhythmic symphony the boarders collaborate on without knowing it, the Rube Goldberg contraptions a schizophrenic woman invents to try to commit suicide). 3.5/5.

[Jack]

Evil Remains (2004) - Some college kids go to a haunted house to do some research for a thesis paper.  Gawd, was this ever horrible.  About 80% of the dialogue doesn't make a damned bit of sense, and when you can figure out what they're talking about, it's just plain stupid.  There are two lesbian girls who go on and on and on about their relationship.  I'm pretty sure all the guys in the movie are gay as well, but like I say, I don't know what the hell was going on.  Here's a typical sample:  The lesbian girls are walking through the woods, talking about their relationship.  One girl steps in a trap, and you can pretty clearly see that it closes over the heel of her boot, and she probably wouldn't even feel it.  Oh no, she's been terribly wounded.  So the other girl helps her walk.  There's a trap set every few feet along the path, and one of the girls snaps about ten of them shut with a stick.  When she gets to the eleventh, she very slowly and carefully lifts up one of the jaws, then, wait...snaps it shut!  This coincides with something happening to a couple of the guys in the house.  Something dramatic.  Unfortunately, you don't have a clue what the hell it is because of the way it's photographed.  After 30 seconds, you can finally see that one guy has apparently impaled himself on a large saw.  Did he walk into it?  I have no idea.  I finally gave up after 70 minutes or so, when the two girls were cowering in fear, talking about their relationship.  Then they escaped the haunted house, and once outside, they cowered in fear, talking about their relationship.  I just could not take any more.  The directing was horrible as well, like the guy was trying to be artsy-fartsy but just came off as amateurish.

1/5.

[indianasmith]

I just finished NECESSARY EVIL - a rather confusing horror movie about a pharmaceutical research company that found one of the Biblical Nephilim and was making a drug with its DNA called Reficul (spell it backwards) to infect humans with demon DNA . . . oh, and the perky, cute investigative reporter is actually a little girl they kidnapped and infected years before, who is now half demon and doesn't know it and . . . well, I'll be honest, it was a boring, confusing mess of a movie that not even Lance Henrickson at his most snarly could redeem.  Granted, I was tired and dozed off a time or two, but this thing was BAD!!

[Doggett]

The Goonies

4/5

Bunch of kids find a map and go treasure hunting.
That's kinda it really.

Oh, Cyndi Lauper does the theme song.

Good fun, the traps could be a little better, though.

[lester1/2jr]

Shottas (2006) - let me start by pointing out the most notable element of Shottas: It is the most sexist movie I've ever seen.  All the women in this movie are hoes.  One woman is so taken with one of them buying a rolex watch,  a product it can be assumed she sells fairly regularly, she can't help herself but to throw herself at him right there in the store, even though he makes vulgar remarks and is rude to her.   This same attraction holds for all the empty headed women in the movie toward their gangster boyfriends.  Misogyny just barely edges out misanthropy as respect for human life is nill.  One guy vaguely wants to rob drug dealers rather than ordinary people.   That is the extent of morality in the shottas world.

  Anyway,  the movie itself is okay!  There are no real action sequences a la John Woo though lots of general guns and violence or fistfights and it feels a bit longer than it's 95 minute running time, but it's interesting and it's message: don't ever go to jamaiaca or miami, was certainly received loud and clear. Some interesting observations on anarchism in jamaica as the gangsters provide the services the police don't or won't , albeit at significant cost. 3/5

[Jack]

Tomb of the Werewolf (2004) - A TV news crew goes to a castle in Europe to investigate a legend involving a werewolf.  This is a Fred Olen Ray film, so the acting is terrible and the story is dopey.  More of a C movie than a B movie.  But man oh man, talk about boobs!  These babes are jumpin' all over everything like bunny rabbits!  3.5/5.

[Leah]

D-9

[lester1/2jr]

Kill the Scream Queen (2004) -  I'm a big fan of Bill Zebubs movies but this isn't really a Bill Zebub movie.  It is in the sense that it is low budget, features New jersey type strippers and is filmed at that same bar all his movies are filmed at, but it is alot more conventional , it's that sort of ostentatiously underground horror movie with "shocking misogyny" and other horror fanboy type elements. I didn't really watch most of it once I realized it wasn't going to have the comedy elements and familiar actors from his other movies.  I'm glad he didn't pursue this further as it is not interesting.

[Jack]

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) - A mega shark and a giant octopus are loose in the oceans, and '80s pop star Debbie Gibson is called in to bring order to the chaos.  This movie was as dumb as a box of rocks.  The shark can go 500 knots (575 mph), and yet it can't catch a submarine, presumeably because they've turned on their "emergency turbos" - I sh!t you not.  The chief scientist used to be a sub captain, but got kicked out of the Navy because he ran his sub aground rather than run through some dolphins.  I guess he must have had his turbos on as well, otherwise I would thing the dolphins would have just gotten out of the way themselves.  The whole movie is like that, those are just a couple out of a hundred examples.  The characters have no personality and don't inspire any interest on the part of the viewer.  2/5.

[hellbilly]

Empire Records: Remix! Special Fan Edition (1995)

"Feel Good" movie that always makes me blush ... but I still end up watching it at least once a year. Nice cast, nice music and "Warren" never fails to crack me up